Govt fixes KG gas price for all at $4.2 per million Btu

03 Dec 2009 Evaluate

The price of natural gas from Reliance Industries Ltd's D-6 field — currently disputed in the Supreme Court — will soon become the benchmark for all consumers throughout the country, according to a petroleum ministry proposal to the Cabinet.

 

'Over the next three years, administered consumer price for power and fertiliser customers outside the Northeast be increased to the price decided by the EGoM for KG D-6 that is $4.2 per million British thermal unit,' says the proposal circulated last week to other ministries for their views. For all other sectors — transport, city gas distribution and small industries in Agra and Ferozabad — the benchmark, which amounts to Rs 7,500 per thousand cubic metres of gas, would become effective from the day the Cabinet approves the proposal.

 

This price — including royalty but excluding cess, actual transport charge, marketing margin of Rs 200 per thousand cubic metres and state tax — would also be applicable for industries in the Northeast with the government footing 40 percent of it.

 

Initially, the consumer price of gas produced by ONGC and OIL for power and fertiliser sectors would be raised to Rs 4,142 and Rs 4,626 respectively from current Rs 3,200 per thousand cubic meters. Subsequently, it would be indexed to the inflation rate with the Reliance benchmark kicking in from 2012-13.

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